PalmOne PalmPilot Professional Organizer

by Palm

Product Details

Product Manual [377kb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 3.2 x 0.7 x 4.7 inches ; 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00000DM9S
• Item model number: 80201U
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #10 in Electronics > Office Electronics > Electronic Organizers
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 1999

Product Description

Amazon.com

3Com changed the world of computing when it released the PalmPilot, a powerful, useful 1 MB computer you could put in your pocket. The PalmPilot Professional is an up-to-date version of the original, with a backlit display, trim design (4.7 inches x 3.2 inches x 0.7 inches), and the ability to link quickly with a desktop PC or Mac. In addition to six keys that allow the user to navigate among the appointment, calendar, and contact information, the PalmPilot Professional includes a stylus for touch-screen operations and on-screen writing, for which you have to learn a slightly modified script for top performance. The Professional also includes a synchronizing cradle for exchanging e-mail, appointments, and contact information with your PC (Internet magazine gave PalmPilot top honors for its synchronization); all the software you need to manage tasks, track expenses on the road, and organize and compose e-mail (a modem and software are available to transmit messages); batteries; an adapter; and a leather slip-case. The PalmPilot Professional has garnered a number of awards, including an MVP and 5-star rating from PC Computing; Editors' Pick from Home Office and Small Business Computing; Best of 1996 from PC Magazine; Best of Byte from Byte magazine; and a stellar rating from Windows Sources. --Patrick O'Kelley

Amazon.com Product Description

Small, light and totally connected, PalmPilot organizers make it easy to store and access all your important information and exchange it with your desktop PC. Say good-bye to messy paper schedules, to-do lists and sticky notes. The lightweight, pocket-sized PalmPilot Professional organizer integrates all of your personal and business information into one device.

You'll have access to thousands of addresses and appointments, as well as hundreds of to-do's and e-mail messages, notes and more, anytime, anywhere. You can backup and exchange information with your desktop PC and popular personal information management (PIM) systems at the touch of a button. It's the #1 way to stay organized.

The built-in PalmPilot Professional Organizer applications include Date Book, Address Book, Mail, To-do List, Memo Pad, Expense, Calculator, Security, Games, and HotSync technology. The user-installed PalmPilot Professional Desktop Organizer Software includes Date Book, Address Book, Mail, To-do List, Memo Pad, Expense Report Templates (for Microsoft Excel 5.0 or higher), and drag and drop links to Microsoft Excel and Word.

What's in the box

• PalmPilot
• Stylus
• HotSync cradle
• Palm Desktop software
• Leather slip-case
• 2 AAA batteries
• DB-25 adapter
• Manual
• Getting Started guide

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the best pda ever, December 5, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: PalmOne PalmPilot Professional Organizer (Office Product)

palm has over 5,000 free programs on the internet and is the best hand held computer. It is fast light small and useable

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Has been working great for the last 7.5 years!, January 15, 2005

By 

Pixy (Milpitas, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: PalmOne PalmPilot Professional Organizer (Office Product)

My PalmPilot Personal has been working great everyday in the last 7.5 years. It only has minor scratches in the graffiti area. I use lower voltage NiMH rechargable batteries with it so I think it is going to last a while. And it is made by US Robotics, and I get some attention when I bring it out of my leather belt clip case and use it.

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Palm computers manage a variety of useful tasks, November 20, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: PalmOne PalmPilot Professional Organizer (Office Product)

The 3Com PalmPilots manage a huge variety of business and personal tasks. Using a simple graphic interface incorporating handwriting recognition, the PalmPilot Professional comes ready to work with a calendar/datebook (with alarms and the ability to handle repeating tasks), address book, to-do list, notepad and calculator. Included software and a linking cradle allow you to swap information with a desktop computer.

The Palm platform is fertile ground for small software developers: fully featured, inexpensive applications for the Palm are available for virtually any need: financial and scientific calculators, database and small spreadsheet programs, document readers and, naturally, games.

In addition, a number of excellent commercial software packages offer Palm links to their Windows-based products, including the popular contact management program Act! and DeLorme's enormously useful map products. With the addition of a compatible GPS unit and cable, the Palm computer running downloaded DeLorme directions can guide you on a trip, giving advance notice of the next turn you'll need to make and displaying speed, elapsed mileage and other parameters.

Add-on devices include modems, an alphanumeric paging receiver, even a compass.

The Palm computers operate on two AAA batteries which, depending on your work habits and use of the backlit screen, will last for a month or so.

Much more than an executive 'toy', the PalmPilot computers offer excellent function in a small, well designed package. A gift that is sure to be appreciated by the businessperson or computer fanatic on your holiday shopping list.